'Good-genes' and 'compatible-genes' effects in an Alpine whitefish and the information content of breeding tubercles over the course of the spawning season

Genetica

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 199-208

  Wedekind, Claus ^a,b   Evanno, Guillaume ^a   Urbach, Davnah ^a   Jacob, Alain ^a   Müller, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breeding tubercles; Contact organ; Embryo viability; Good genes sexual selection; Perl organ; Salmonids; Secondary sexual characters; Signaling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; SALMONID; SEASON; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCTION; SALMONIDAE; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

COREGONUS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 36649002422     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-007-9164-3     Document Type: Article

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